{"id":208773,"date":"2025-03-15T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/crew-launch-to-iss-paves-way-for-stranded-astronauts-return"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:07:03","slug":"crew-launch-to-iss-paves-way-for-stranded-astronauts-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/crew-launch-to-iss-paves-way-for-stranded-astronauts-return","title":{"rendered":"Crew launch to ISS paves way for \u2018stranded\u2019 astronauts\u2019 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crew-launch-to-iss-paves-way-for-stranded-astronauts-return.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not long to go now: After more than nine months on the International Space Station, two astronauts are a step closer to returning home following the launch of a crew swap mission on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon fixed to its top blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 pm (2303 GMT), carrying a four-member team bound for the orbital outpost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe celebrate the countless individuals all over the world that have made this journey possible,\u201d said astronaut Nichole Ayers, the designated pilot of the Crew-10 mission, just before launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long to go now: After more than nine months on the International Space Station, two astronauts are a step closer to returning home following the launch of a crew swap mission on Friday. A Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon fixed to its top blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}